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Earle Birney Quotes

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

Earle Birney
Voice, Poetry, Essentials

Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.

Earle Birney
Time, Bears, Cold
Earle Birney (2014). “The Essential Earle Birney”, p.52, The Porcupine's Quill

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.

Earle Birney
Reality, Men, Dancing

Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.

Earle Birney
Art, Thinking, Perception
Earle Birney (1972). “The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry”, Holt McDougal

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

Earle Birney
Writing, Men, Vancouver

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